The week ahead

By Prieur du Plessis, on January 16th, 2010 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

The video clips below provide a handy summary of the reports expected on the economic, financial and corporate front around the globe during the week ahead.

US: Earnings, health care

The health-care bill could get a full vote and earnings season heats up with reports scheduled from heavyweights Google, IBM, AMD, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup, General Electric, McDonald’s and Starbucks.

Europe: ASML, ST-Ericsson

Tech specialists ASML and ST-Ericsson report earnings along with British luxury-goods giant Burberry and the London Stock Exchange. The ZEW investor sentiment survey from Germany will also be out.

Asia: China economic growth in focus

China will report its fourth quarter GDP and investors will watch the data to get a sense of how aggressively Beijing will have to act to rein in inflation. India’s financial sector and technology outsourcing firms’ earnings are due.

Source: MarketWatch (here, here and here), January 15, 2010.

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